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Francis Uzoho is set to lead the Super Eagles out as captain for tonight’s highly anticipated Unity Cup semi-final clash against the Warriors of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
The Omonia Nicosia goalkeeper takes the armband as the most senior and experienced player currently available in the Nigerian international camp.<\/p>\n
Uzoho’s ascension to the captaincy comes as a direct result of several high-profile absences within the squad. Regular skipper Wilfred Ndidi was blocked from joining the tournament due to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Francis Uzoho is set to lead the Super Eagles out as captain for tonight’s highly anticipated Unity Cup semi-final clash against the Warriors of Zimbabwe. The Omonia Nicosia goalkeeper takes the armband as the most senior and experienced player currently available in the Nigerian international camp. Uzoho’s ascension to the captaincy comes as a direct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10844,6674,5232,257,254,9095,4019,54483,4686,421,47096],"class_list":["post-234607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-captain","tag-cup","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-unity","tag-uzoho","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwenigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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